Foreign investors and governments must prepare to deal with China's new economic goals. Under new leaders, China is shifting toward a stable consumer-led growth model, away from production and rapid growth, writes Stephen S. Roach, Yale professor, author and former chairman of Morgan Stanley...
NEW HAVEN: The Next China is now at hand. Yet the United States remains fixated on the Old China, unprepared for major transformation in the world’s second largest economy. The US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue slated July 10 to 11 in...
In history, the concept of marriage emerged in diverse cultures to recognize relationships, protect family bloodlines, organize economic affairs and provide caring for children. This institution did not touch homosexuals, estimated to comprise 5 to 10 percent of the population, most of whom...
Untying the legal knot: Australians demonstrate for same sex marriage
NEW YORK: Same-sex marriage is a new social phenomenon and, indeed, the label of homosexuality is relatively new, offered by German psychologist Karoly Maria Benkert in 1869. Even...
The pharmaceutical industry relies on patent protection for profits and claims to reinvest those profits into more research for medicines that save lives. But the system has an inherent flaw when people with infectious diseases cannot afford the life-saving drugs and companies focus most effort on...
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Nearing the tenth anniversary of the execution of nine Nigerian political and environmental activists, questions still remain as to whether their sacrifice has been in vain. Ken Wiwa, a journalist whose father Ken Saro-Wiwa was instrumental in voicing the unjust corporate practices of Shell and...
Ten years ago on Thursday my father and eight Ogoni men were hanged by Nigeria’s military regime. The news of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s murder sent shock waves around the world, not least because the executions were carried out...
Per-capita water use is low and declining in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and even Nepal and Bangladesh – and water disputes exacerbate strained relations, suggests a Chatham House report, with Gareth Price as the lead author. About 90 percent of the water is used for agriculture. Competition...
Discussion about water in South Asia – in particular the shared rivers of the region – is vociferous, antagonistic and increasingly associated with national security.
Renewable water resources in the region have fallen dramatically on a per...
The poor around the globe may still live on a few dollars per day. But price pressure on electronics like smart phones and computers have lowered costs of education and communications and increased the ranks of a virtual middle class. Expanded numbers of people connecting via the internet will have...
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The brutal end of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi is a warning for despots who resist reforms. Too many African leaders follow the personality-based model of Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah rather than the state-building model of Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere, argues Mahmood Mamdani, a professor at Columbia and Makerere...
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As economic crisis sweeps the globe, citizens expect their political leaders to create jobs, but it leads to other problems in the process. For example, in the US, President Barack Obama has vowed to end “tax breaks” for companies that ship jobs overseas, causing consternation among some in the...
India calling: Need to cut cost could make outsourcing of backoffice work indispensable. (Photo: KPN Photo)
NEW DELHI: Ever since taking over as US president, Barack Obama has caused some nervous moments for India...
